Philippines, rebels close to peace deal
Muslim rebels and the Philippine government are
close to a deal on land claims, the key to ending a 40-year
insurgency that has cost more than 120,000 lives, the facilitator of
the talks said on Tuesday.
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Nepal's Maoists fire on army patrol, kill cab driver
Maoist guerrillas fired on an army patrol in
east Nepal and gunned down a taxi driver as violence continued ahead
of the country's first local election in seven years.
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Fifteen held after Pakistan bus blast
Pakistani police arrested 15 suspects in
connection with a deadly bomb blast on a passenger bus in the
country's increasingly volatile southwest, officials said.
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